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2002-12-03
Ok .. it is done. OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-6 is uploaded and accepted to debian. We have OpenOffice.org for I386 and PowerPC for debian in debian up to now.
Jan has committed some patches from Gerhard Tonn for supporting OpenOffice.org for Debian-S390, I we will relaese OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-7 for three arches, that is great!
The Debian-OpenOffice-Team is working on a strange relocation error. It seems, that OpenOffice.org dies at starting or while running with an error like that:
~> ooffice
Gnome session manager detected - session management disabled /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl641li.so: symbol _ZN3psp10PrinterGfxC1Ev, version LIBPSPRINT_1_0 not defined in file libpsp641li.so with link time reference
One way to solve is, that all, the internal and external modules are build with one compiler, in our case gcc-3.2. We saw, that some external modules are build with gcc, which is gcc-2.95 :( *dooh*.
Ok, all patches are applied for building OOo with exportet CC and CXX and it seems to work, but unfortunatly, the relocation error seems not be solved. It might be a libc bug. We have to examine it.
2002-11-21
What I forgot to mention was, that David Kimdon was able to build OOo for DebianPPC on Woody with some binutils/glibc/gcc-3.2 backports from sid to woody. Thnx for the work on it. He provides them under:
http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/oo/ Enjoy and mail the issues to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.
2002-11-19
We uploaded OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-6 to debian for PowerPC and I386 archetectures. They are not included to debian yet, we are just waiting for accapting them by the ftp-master of the Debian-Project. But they should be installable from our mirrors, too!
ENJOY!
2002-11-10
We have finished build of openoffice.org-1.0.1-6rc1. We do not want to add new features to the package, and we hope, that we can release -6 in this week or in the next. We are hoping, that the package will accept for debian, too. But before that, you have to use our mirrors.
Jan got rid of the gcc-3.1 dependency of OpenOffice.org on debian-powerpc and builded packages of OpenOffice.org for debian-ppc again. They are not much tested, but OpenOffice.org will start. :)
You can get the debian-packages for OpenOffice.org for debian-powerpc at:
http://bourbaki.math.uni-kiel.de/~jpalic/OpenOffice.org. Enjoy and mail bugs/issues .... :)
2002-09-29
Ok .. after silent work, we have some news.
First of all, Gerhard Tonn builded a package for OpenOffice.org on S390, so we have a third architecture with running OpenOffice.org on debian. You can find the packages at http://people.debian.org/~gt/openoffice.org. Check them, if you can (I know, everyone have one :) ) and report bugs to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.
The debian PowerPC port of debian has a bug in the dependencies. If you deinstall gcc-3.1.1 from your debian installation completely, including libstdc++4, openoffice.org is to be removed then, too. This a consequense of the mozilla binaries for the PowerPC OpenOffice.org, which are builded with gcc-3.1.1. Building Mozilla with gcc-3.2.1, Jan got a linker error, but Jan found some patches to solve that, so he will build Mozilla and OpenOffice.org again to get rid of the libstdc++4 dependency.
Chris, René and Jan are discussion whether it should be clever to use the internal libraries of the OpenOffice.org source or not. Chris intention is to get OpenOffice.org into debian faster and wait for the gcc-transition to use the system libs of debian. Jan's opinion is to use debian libs as they can, but it will take time and OpenOffice.org may into after the gcc-transition.
Chris uploaded OpenOffice.org to debian in the last weeks, but it was rejected, because, the Debian OpenOffice.org Team should provide source-packages of the language-packages of OpenOffice.org. But this is not possible, because the language-packages are build at buildtime from the same source as OpenOffice.org. Splitting up the sourcepackage is not possible.
Packages for debian-woody are available as TESTING packages. These packages are running under debian-woody and sarge. Just, testing is used as debian use it ;). But it is only available for I386. Jan is working for PowerPC, but this is not as easy, because, we have to use gcc-3.2 for PowerPC. So he has to backport gcc/binutils/glibc for woody/sarge. Check out the Mirrors-Page.
2002-08-20
It is done. Chris is preparing the upload of OpenOffice.org packages to debian-unstable. We are now building OpenOffice.org with gcc-3.2 and the patch 026 fixes the problem, I pointed out on 2002-08-10. OpenOffice.org is now available for I386 and Jan builded OpenOffice.org for PPC already, but will upload it tomorrow.
Chris mailed today, that we have a few new help packages available in other langs as en_EN. You can find them on our mirrors in some tome (after sync) :) Available are:
openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1_all.deb
openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-1_all.deb
openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-1_all.deb
openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-1_all.deb
openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-1_all.deb

and can be grapped from:
http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/miscellaneous/helpcontent
2002-08-10
OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-4 is availalable, for some time ;). There are only configfile-changes, so the binary packages are not updated. Chris and Jan are working to get OOo build with gcc-3.2, since there was an announce to switch to gcc-3.2 as default compiler on debian. But we both get this error on debian-i386 and debian-powerpc:
Checking DLL ../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libucpchelp1.so ...: ERROR: ../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libucpchelp1.so: undefined symbol: _ZTIN3ucb25ContentProviderImplHelpere dmake: Error code 3, while making '../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libucpchelp1.so' dmake: '../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libucpchelp1.so' removed.
We have no soluution for this, but we are working on it! The bridgecode seems to work with gcc-3.2, it compiles fine.
The libc6 issues are resolved, the patches from Jan are applied into libc6-2.2.5-13, so, there are no need for his special libc6 packages.
2002-07-25
OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-1 and 1.0.1-2 are now available for Debian. There are not big changes, only small fixes from Sun's side to make OpenOffice.org more stable. The big change is, that OpenOffice.org will work with the Mozilla addressbook on powerpc. That is great, we have not less features in OpenOffice.org on powerpc against i386. The build is done with gcc-3.0 for i386 and gcc-3.1 for powerpc.
We got the message, that Debian will switch to gcc-3.2 near in the future, so we will get one compiler for both arches.
Some people still mentioned, that they have problems with OpenOffice.org on powerpc, which I got before building 1.0.1-rc2. I am looking for it and I think, that patch 005_gcc3_misc_changes.diff cause these errors. Jan will look for it!
One of the userfriendly changes is, that the OpenOffice.org dir in the home directory is always ~/.openoffice/"oo-ver", so since 1.0.1-1 we have ~/.openoffice/1.0.1. All usersettings will be saved in ~/.openoffice/"oo-ver" in the future.
2002-07-15
OpenOffice.org for debian-powerpc is available. Jan was able to build OpenOffice.org in debian-powerpc, and, except the mozilla-connection, it seems to work.
2002-07-11
It seems, the hard work is over. Kevin B. Hendricks announced the come back of the PowerPC port for OpenOffice.org. There is a bug in the bridge-code for PowerPC and gcc-3.1, but he found and fixed it.
Jan was working on this bug, too, and helped Kevin to find the error, to eliminate it! Since Kevin found it, Jan is building OpenOffice.org-1.0.1rc2 for PowerPC and it looks good. He included his owns mozilla-1.0.0 include, libs and runtime files compiled it on its own.
If this works, Jan will get OpenOffice.org linked against Debian's Mozilla.
2002-07-10
Chris announced the first Package of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, it is called realese-candidate2. It is not the official OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 package, because it is not realesed yet!
Chris also introduced, that we have a new test system, like debian has. We have a testing and a unstable branch of OpenOffice.org.
deb $SERVER-URL testing main contrib in your /etc/apt/sources.list will give you a tested and a running OpenOffice.org package, which is known as working package.
deb $SERVER-URL unstable main contrib in your /etc/apt/sources.list will give you the latest OpenOffice.org package, which may be more buggy.
Note testing and unstable do not mean, the one OpenOffice.org package is for Woody and the second is Sid. No! We are lucky, that OpenOffice.org will run under Woody by installing libgcc1 from Sid. But the OpenOffice.org package is is build with gcc-3.1 on PowerPC, so it will not installable on Woody, except you will install gcc-3.1-base and libstdc++4 from Sid, too.

2002-07-09
Ok. We are working on OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, which will be relaesed in a few days. Chris Halls released OpenOffice.org-1.0.1rc1, but there was a problem with the shlibs-files of libstlport, so there are problems with the dependency on it. So he tagged it as bad, so please stick with OpenOffice.org-1.0.0-6 up to write a new announce.
Then we have a few problems with our builds. Kevin B. Hendricks figgured out with Jan, that there could be bug in the bridge-code of OpenOffice.org, or in the gcc-3.1 or glibc-2.2.5 in Debian. The OpenOffice.org binary, which can be downloaded at http://crunch.ivey.uwo.ca/khendricks/openoffice, does not start on Debian, and unfortunatly, on SuSE, too. :( But it will start, if the libcppuhelper3.so is build with -O0. But why, we do not know. Then, when OpenOffice.org runs it will get a SIGKill, when you choose the mozilla-adress database as externel adress-source. A summery, which are the issues on PowerPC are can be read at http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2002/debian-openoffice-200207/msg00063.html and at http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=351029&listName=releases. That is a weird issue, because nobody can say, where the bug is. Jan fixes the debian glibc with three PPC related patches and we are hoping, that the glibc maintainer is going to apply them with the new package. But there are some issues with mozilla to or this issue is related to glibc and effected mozilla. We are not sure. Jan is building OpenOffice.org right now with gcc-3.1. The nest weird thing is, that Chris finished a build with gcc-3.1 on I386, but that does not work ... I think, that is the same issue, we have on PowerPC (debian-related), but I'm not sure. Chris is building right now, so we will see it in the next days. Then we know a bit more about this.
2002-06-26
Chris released OpenOffice.org-1.0.0-6. The fonts issues, for example missing enumartions, are resolved. We linked OpenOffice.org against the system libfreetype-2.1.2, but this do not work. In -6 we switched back to the internal libfreetype 2.0.7 from OpenOffice.org.
We are now working on OpenOffice.org 1.0.1. Jan has finished his work to switch over to gcc-3.1. But there are some problems. On PowerPC, libstlport4.5 has an unresolved symbol sqrtl and therefor the build breaks with that. You will get this:

Checking DLL ../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsalhelper3gcc3.so ...: ERROR: /usr/lib/libstlport_gcc.so.4.5: undefined symbol: sqrtl
dmake: Error code 3, while making '../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsalhelper3gcc3.so'
dmake: '../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsalhelper3gcc3.so' removed.

This is a libc6 bug, see Bugreport '#151225'. A fixed libc-2.2.5-7.1 will be available at sunday. Jan is working on some PowerPC patches for the libc to help the libc6 maintainer.
2002-06-23
Jan has finished his work on gcc-3.1 and OpenOffice.org. After mailing with Kevin B. Hendriks, he decided to switch over to the upcoming release of OpenOffice.org-1.0.1.
2002-06-21
Chris has released OpenOffice.org-1.0.0-5. Right this time, we had to less mirror, but we got two new mirrors, thnx to Robert McQueen and Chris Lawrence.
2002-06-19
Chris is building OpenOffice.org 1.0.0-5 in this time. Lars will build the powerpc version of that, thnx!
2002-06-18
Jan has finished his work with the patches to get OpenOffice.org build with gcc-3.1. There are still some include problems, but the whole system builds with gcc-3.1.
2002-06-13
First .. this site is linked from www.openoffice.org and www.ooodocs.org. Thnx Chris, what should I do without you :) ...
2002-06-07
Jan is currently working oon switching the buildprocess to gcc-3.1. The problem is detecting the include used by gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.x. Well, Jan is thinking about to switch to gcc-3.1 totally. But this will break the compatibility to woody. If gcc-3.1 is the used toolchain, you have to install the gcc-3.1 liberies and some other libraries, which are build with g++-3.1, because there were abi changes, which cause a incompatibility between g++-3.0 and g+-3.1 binaries. He is workin on this problem!
2002-05-29
Sorry, for the late upload of this news.
Chris released 1.0.0-4 of the OpenOffice.org package for debian. It is available for i386 only, because, Jan is in the middle in switching the buildprocess to gcc-3.1.
OpenOffice.org has been splitted in the new version. The package are now:
  • 12M openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 36M openoffice.org-bin_1.0.0-4_i386.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-ar_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 8.2k openoffice.org-l10n-ca_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-da_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-de_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-el_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-en_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-es_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 8.2k openoffice.org-l10n-fi_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-fr_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-it_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-ja_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-ko_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-nl_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-pl_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-pt_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-ru_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-sv_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-tr_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-zh-cn_1.0.0-4_all.deb
  • 15M openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw_1.0.0-4_all.deb
Thank you to Martin Quinson, who did work on splitting up OpenOffice.org. Thank you to John M Cooper, too, who enabled the menus of OpenOffice.org in the debian-X-menues.
I will update the patches, we need to get -4 building.
2002-05-21
I added a small list with interesting links inside this side an to other OpenOffice.org related websides. If there links, which should be added, please mail Jan- Hendrik Palic.
We are currently working on the next debian-package. The Todo list is very long, so, please be patiant. We will inlude mime-type support and menu-support. But there are many non trivial issues. We are working on them. Have a look to the TODO.Debian file, what issues are open.
Jan-Hendrik Palic is also working on the gcc port of PPC to GCC3. He is working with Kevin B. Hendriks, OpenOffice.org PPC maintainer, on GCC3.1, but there are some bugs, which make a build on PowerPC with GCC3.1 impossible.
Simon Law was asking about the libgcpl replacement. Peter Novodvorski dropped any gpcl support off OpenOffice.org, so OpenOffice.org does not need the libgcpl-dev build-dependency anymore. But we have no replacement. Simon Law voluntaired to work on a replacement. Simon: GO AHAED :).
Then, we had to closed our Mirror on Sourceforge.net, because, the traffic was to havy for them! But we got some more mirrors, you can see them here.
2002-05-08
We uploaded the OpenOffice.org-1.0.0-3 with removed KDE stuff. There is no mass-klicking-on-the-ignore-button-while-kdestuff-installing anymore. We will reinclude it, when it is fixed by upstream.
We already included mimesupport, thnx John M. Cooper, and a Readme, with installation instructions and an updated TODO list.
We are still working on dropping the java dependency, Peter is creating the patch for it.
John M. Cooper created a menu file, so we are able now to get the symbols working on all X-windowmanagers. Thnx to again, John. Me was pointed to apt-get sources for j2sdk1.3 for powerpc, so I hardcoded the configure flag into debian/rules and droped the variable in scripts/vars.{i386,powerpc}.
Some people reported, that there are problems with some fonts. Sometimes, it is possible, that will get into trouble, that you have no menus ecetera. It seems, that the truetype fontserver xfs make some problems with running OpenOffice.org. On had to reinstall the whole debian to get OpenOffice.org working. This might be a upstream bug, but we are not sure and we do not know where it comes from. We are looking for that.

2002-05-06
OpenOffice.org-1.0.0 is released, look here for the release notes. On Friday, Chris Halls finished the build for i368, Jan- Hendrik Palic builded the debian package for powerpc. I uploaded it here. Peter Novodvorski wrote a patch to drop the dependency on libgpcl0. So, the first step is done to get OpenOffice.org to main. Now, we have to work on a patch to drop the java-stuff.
Have a look to the full announce of the debian-package of openoffice.org, there is a TODO, which is all to do.
Download the package, installes it, run and test it. Please mail us issues to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.
2002-04-24
Depending on the debian package of OpenOffice.org for i386, I created a debian package for powerpc as well. Yes, right, we have debian packages for Intel and PowerPC. We used to build OpenOffice.org gcc2 and libstlport4.0 for building on PowerPC. Kevin B. Hendriks is allready working on porting the bridges codes to PPC and gcc3. But mailed me, that he is working for gcc-3.1 support. So I decided to build with gcc2. You can find the debian package here. Just in time, I'm building a new upstream!
The PowerPC debian-package has limited functionality, but only in one point. The mozilla-adressbook cannot be used, because of two missing libs while building. I;m working on a fix, but that is not easy, because, all solutions, I thought, causes a policy violation. The mozilla-libs are not builded in the OpenOffice.org build-prozess, is it allready provided as binaries in zip files. That is not easy to replace!
2002-04-20
WE HAVE A BUILD FOR DEBIAN! http://apt-proxy.sf.net/openoffice you can find the OpenOffice.org debian package and the libstlport4.5 debian packages. They are builded wit gcc3, so you have to install all, what you can get there! :)
Currently the build for PPC is working, but it will be compiled with gcc2 and libstlport4.0. Kevin B. Hendriks mailed me, that the bridging code is not portet yet for PPC and gcc3 and it will not be until gcc3.1 will be released. So, I do not want to wait, so I will changed the debian/control file and build OpenOffice.org on PPC with libstlport4.0.
2002-04-15
Hi, in the last week, there are some new things. We decided to build OpenOffice.org with gcc-3.0. We have to build OpenOffice.org with gcc-2.95, if we use libstlport4.0, but this is not in debian as libstlport4.5, so we have to switch to gcc-3.0. I created new archives and uploaded them.
But we have some other new things. Peter Novodvorski created a public cvs- repository for the debian- development on this package. How can you reach it? Do it so:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@island.po.cs.msu.su:/var/lib/cvs
cvs login
with empty passwort.
cvs co oo-deb
Then you have a debian directory for the openoffice.org package. A fully hint to build OOo in debian can be seenhere.
2002-04-08
After this weekend, I updated the OpenOffice.org archive. We have the CVS version from 20020804. I created orig.tar.gz and diff.gz and dsc file. They are uploaded as well to the usual place.
But we had another problem by building OpenOffice.org. The building breaks with missing lib stlport, if you builded OpenOffice.org with libstlport4.5-4.5.3-1 installed. Have a look to Bug#141031 for more information. The problem ist, that the libstlport package does not provide the libstlport.gcc.a file, but libstlport4.5-dbg, with a link, but the building fails either.
I repackaged the libstlport with libstlport.gcc.a in libstlport4.5-dev. The building will work now.. up to the new error! :) You can find the packages at the usual places......
2002-04-01
I hope, you had a great eastern weekend!
Ok .. we go ahead to OpenOffice.org stable1. I renamed the package to OpenOffice.org, because of conflicting to another product. Then we build OpenOffice.org with gcc3/g++3 and I package libstlport4.5 with gcc3 to build OpenOffice.org with it. Chris did some changes to ./configure to use gcc3. I created the orig.tar.gz, diff.gz and dsc file to use the cvs-20020401 version of OpenOffice.org Stable1 ... also called as ooo_stable_1.
If you have some issus, please mail us or meet us on OPN (all mentioned above). Regards.
2002-03-24
We switched to the release candidate for OpenOffice 1.0 and I renamed the package to OpenOffice.org. The version we just working about is the OpenOffice ooo_stable1. It's only getting by cvs, so we will go further with the cvs version. So the name changed from openoffice-0.641c to openoffice.org-cvs20020322.
Chris worked on the xvfb problem and he solved it, with some errors, because, he was not scripting it under bash ... :). I will leave the older files on the server a bit, and I uploaded the new file for openoffice.org.
The bison problem should be fixed in the newer version. But the bison in debian-unstable has a rc-bug, so it can be, that there are building-errors at the module idlc.
Ok, Chris and me are in debian-oo on OPN, so, you are welcome.
2002-03-15
Chris Halls reported on debian-openoffice mailist, that the build will be finish fine. I mailed some patches, that fixes the xvfb build bug.Xvfb sets $XAUTHORITY to ./Xauthority. But you do not have ./Xauthority, except in your $HOME. So his build of OpenOffice finished, it took about 8h on PIII 700MHz.
But there are some problems with setup.bin. It exits with return code 1. We talked about it on IRC, we are thinking, that there are collisions between libstlport and stdinclude, but we were not sure about that.
Chris sent three patches to debian-openoffice mailing list. I put them into my build-tree and I uploaded the new diff.gz and dsc file.
Please try it out this weekend, if you want and send errormessages to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org. There message from Chris can be seen here.
2002-03-14
II uploaded a new diff.gz and dsc file. Chris worked on it, because, we still have problems with xvfb/xvfb-run. Someone mailed me, that the dpkg-buildpackage fails to build after dmake, even with the xvfb error. It could not connect to a XServer. But why after the build and not while the build. I hope, this one will fix it. When it won't run, the build on the autobuilder will fail to.
Please test it out and mail to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.
I uploaded a new version of the OpenOffice autobuildscript by Chris Halls. Check it out, you can get it here.
I put buildconflict in the debian/control against libgcj2-dev, because the build fails with wrong includes. The buildprocess will include them instaed of using the jdk includes .... and then the build fails.
2002-03-13
Hi ... there were some mail on the debian-openoffice mailinglist relating, that the xfvb-hack in debian/rules wont work. And yes, it seem, that there is an error. Chris Halls and me decided to change it with xfvb-run, and for Chris it will work!
I uploaded the diff.gz allready.
Chris also mailed me a script for autobuilding OpenOffice. ooautobuil.sh downloads the source and diff.gz with wget, extract it and will build openoffice, if the builddependencies are installed. When the build ends, you will get a mail, if the build fails or is successfull. You can get it here.
2002-03-09
I got a patch from Chris Halls for building particular modules. So, we can start the build at this module, where it fails. This will spend us some time to debug the code. Chris Halls helps me with building OpenOffice, he works on a intel machine, so he could build a debian package for intel, but I went always to the same error with jni.h - include. You can see the error here.
AFAIR there are complications with libgcj-dev. So ... I have to include a buildconflict entry in the debian/control.
Please ...try the build without libgcj-dev on your system!
2002-03-08
I got a Mail from Filip Van Raemdonck with some patches for the settings for the debian-package. First, the version number changes from -641c to -0.641c. The, Filip does some changes to the Doogie Build System (DBS), the scripts, which are building OpenOffice. I also send me a patch for using j2sdk1.4, which I don't apply yet. I hope to have time in the next days to have a look for it. You can examine the patches here
OpenOffice depends on j2sdk1.3.1 (usually), so I do not see to apply this patch, but, java1.4 is relaesed, so I will have a look to it. I'am going to attach it to the issuezilla of OpenOffice.org, but I have to build OpenOffice fine with it.
The patch for java1.4 support can be seen here

The patch from Kevin B. Hendriks does not work, I got a build error, saying, that there were multiple targets defined in the makefile for sw/source/core/unocore. I changed it to this patch:

--- oo_641c_src_orig/sw/source/core/unocore/makefile.mk Sat Feb 16 23:09:37 2002
+++ oo_641c_src/sw/source/core/unocore/makefile.mk Fri Mar 8 19:30:31 2002
@@ -143,10 +143,13 @@
$/unostyle.obj\
$/unotbl.obj \
$/unotext.obj
+.IF ""=="LINUXGCCPOWERPC"
+EXCEPTIONSFILES += \
+ $/unoportenum.obj
+.ENDIF

-EXCEPTIONSNOOPTFILES = \
- $/unoportenum.obj
-
+EXCEPTIONSNOOPTFILES= \
+ $/unoportenum.obj

I try a build with it.
2002-03-06 I got a patch to solve this problem, mentioned at 2002-03-04. Kevin B. Hendriks mail me this patch:

--- makefile.mk~ Tue Nov 6 03:34:24 2001
+++ makefile.mk Fri Dec 7 12:13:51 2001
@@ -144,8 +144,14 @@
$/unotbl.obj \
$/unotext.obj

-EXCEPTIONSNOOPTFILES = \
- $/unoportenum.obj
+.IF ""=="LINUXGCCPOWERPC"
+ EXCEPTIONSFILES += \
+ $/unoportenum.obj
+.ELSE
+ EXCEPTIONSNOOPTFILES = \
+ $/unoportenum.obj
+.ENDIF
+
for /$OO_SOURCE/sw/source/core/unocore/makefile.mk. I will apply it and try a build.
2002-03-04
lx_files.bmp cannot be opened is one error, which will come, if there is no possibility to connect to some X-server. You can fix it with running xvfb while building openoffice.
You need include this:
Xvfb : &
cd && csh -c 'setenv DISPLAY :; source ; dmake'
kill $$(cat /tmp/.X-lock)

Just .. I got an error by building OpenOffice on PPC:
Checking DLL ../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsw641lp.so ...: ERROR: ../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsw641lp.so: undefined symbol: GetAnchor__C5SwFmtUc
dmake: Error code 3, while making '../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsw641lp.so'
dmake: '../unxlngppc.pro/lib/libsw641lp.so' removed.

See here for full compiler-call and error.
2002-02-28
I got some patches from a mandrake developer for building OpenOffice. He was helping me to solve the "yyparse__Fv" bug. But I can't solve it with him bison-patch, but with the new patch in the issuezilla 3114 at openoffice.org it works fine. But one step further, I got another error (who wonders):

Preprocessor startline: rscpp @/tmp/filec59Ubu
Rsc2 commandline: rsc2 @/tmp/fileUdIDm7
Files: /tmp/fileTSiYun /tmp/fileVOyGJZ /tmp/fileX44XgT /tmp/fileRMXYxZ /tmp/filePEauwq /tmp/filevpIdlb /tmp/filemsiBrc /tmp/fileYbQgqt /tmp/fileAN3xcY /tmp/fileyIXegO /tmp/fileY96esU
reading file /tmp/fileTSiYun .........
reading file /tmp/fileVOyGJZ ................................................... ..................
reading file /tmp/fileX44XgT .......
reading file /tmp/fileRMXYxZ ................................
reading file /tmp/filePEauwq ...........
reading file /tmp/filevpIdlb ..................................................
reading file /tmp/filemsiBrc .......
reading file /tmp/fileYbQgqt ..........................
reading file /tmp/fileAN3xcY ....................
reading file /tmp/fileyIXegO .
reading file /tmp/fileY96esU .
Generating .rc file
f258: Error: This file lx_files.bmp cannot be opened.
Terminating compiler
Error starting rsc2 compiler> dmake: Error code 1, while making '../unxlngppc.pro/bin/svt64149.res'
---* TG_SLO.MK *---

So .. I have to look, where the file lx_files.bmp can be found.
I uploaded a new diff.gz, dsc and my patches here, so you can download an try them out.. Please mail debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org.

2002-02-21
I got an answer from openoffice-dev mailinglist about the undefined reference problem in the rsc module:
I should do a cd rsc ; rm unxlngppc.pro -rf ; build, so the rsc- module will be created completely new.
Ken Fosky explained:

This will force a total rebuild in the rsc directory. The problem is that the unxlnppc.pro/inc/rscyacc.yxx is created as header code using the old version of the makefile.rc and the new version will not remake it because the date stamp is newer than the source file (cant remember off the source filename the top of my head).

I hope, he can tell me the source-file with the wrong timestamp.

I uploaded the current .diff.gz and .dsc, you can find the source and .diff.gz and .dsc here.
2002-02-16
No new OpenOffice package. We have some problems with bison and yacc. The version, sid have, are too new to build OpenOffice on debian-sid.
I mailed to openoffice-dev mailinglist and I got this patch for building OpenOffice with bison 1.28 and 1.3x. Have a look: here
But the build fails either, at the module rsc2. It fails with:

Making: ../../unxlngppc.pro/srs/dbwizres.srs
echo dbwizres.src
dbwizres.src
rsc -presponse @/tmp/mk7Bd9Sj
VCL Resource Compiler 3.0
Preprocessor commandline: -I. -I. -I. -I../inc -I../../inc -I../../unx/inc -I../../unxlngppc.pro/inc -I.
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/build-tree/oo_641c_src/solver/641/unxlngppc.pro/inc
-I /home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/build-tree/oo_641c_src/solver/641/unxlngppc.pro
/inc/external -I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/build-tree/oo_641c_src/solenv/u nxlngppc/inc
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/build-tree/oo_641c_src/solenv/inc
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/build-tree/oo_641c_src/res
-I/usr/include
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/debian/local/stlport-home/stlport
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/debian/local/stlport-home/include/stlport
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/debian/local/stlport-home/include/stlport
-I/home/palic/Files/Projekte/OpenOffice/source/debian/openoffice-641c/build-tree/oo_641c_src/solenv/inc/Xp31
-I/usr/local/j2sdk1.3/include -I/usr/local/j2sdk1.3/include/linux
-I/usr/local/j2sdk1.3/include/native_threads/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
-I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/include -I/usr/include -I. -I../../res
-I. -DUNX -DVCL -DGCC -DC295 -DSUPD=641 -DBUILD=7565 -DSOLAR_JAVA -DPRODUCT -DPRODUCT_FULL -DNDEBUG -DUPDVER="641"
dbwizres.src /tmp/filergzziT
Preprocessor startline: rscpp @/tmp/fileiZM7sC
Rsc2 commandline: rsc2 @/tmp/filepydXmD
Files: /tmp/filergzziT
reading file /tmp/filergzziT rsc2: relocation error: rsc2: undefined symbol: yyparse__Fv
Error starting rsc2 compiler

By compiling the rsc2 compiler, I got this:

../../unxlngppc.pro/obj/rsclex.o: In function `parser(RscFileInst *)':
../../unxlngppc.pro/obj/rsclex.o(.text+0x1304): undefined reference to `yyparse(void)'
../../unxlngppc.pro/obj/rsclex.o: In function `MacroParser(RscFileInst &)':
../../unxlngppc.pro/obj/rsclex.o(.text+0x1408): undefined reference to `yyparse(void)'
../../unxlngppc.pro/obj/rsclex.o(.got2+0x3c): undefined reference to `yylval'
-rwxrwxr-x 1 palic palic 384833 Feb 17 01:34 ../../unxlngppc.pro/bin/rsc2

I think, this code will fail:
oo_src_641c/rsc/source/parser/rsclexx.hxx:194

#if defined( RS6000 )
extern "C" int yyparse(); // forward Deklaration fuer erzeugte Funktion
extern "C" void yyerror( char * );
extern "C" int yylex( void );
#elif defined( HP9000 ) || defined( SCO ) || defined ( IRIX ) || defined (SOLARIS )
extern "C" int yyparse(); // forward Deklaration fuer erzeugte Funktion
extern "C" void yyerror( const char * );
extern "C" int yylex( void );
#else
#if defined ( WTC ) || defined ( GCC )
int yyparse(); // forward Deklaration fuer erzeugte Funktion
#else
yyparse(); // forward Deklaration fuer erzeugte Funktion
#endif


But the next question is, what the fuck is yyparse__Fv? I can't mentioned it :(
2002-01-30
So .. I created the pactches and tried to build OpenOffice, but it fails. I will upload the .orig.tar.gz, diff.gz and .dsc, so you may test and have a look, what's wrong. You will find the files here.
2002-01-28
After a fine weekend with debian-developers in Hamburg, I decided to give OpenOffice a next try. Peter Novodvorski runs out of space by building the OpenOffice deb. I think, I have work on it. Peters Packages can be found here.
Try them out und mail to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org some errors.
 
   
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